Monday, December 05, 2005

Sorvetology: VICTORY LAPS

After more than three months of hard work and meticulous sampling, I have tried all 49 flavors currently offered by Cairú, Belém’s gourmet ice cream chain. I recently discovered that not all of the locations offer the same flavors. Sometimes one location would be out of stock of a flavor but the same flavor would be available at the location 5 blocks away. Other times a flavor would be unique to a location. This kept me on my toes and required me to visit the three biggest stores in the city to ensure that no flavor went untasted.

In these last two weeks, I’m doing victory laps and enjoying my favorite flavors. The top 5, in no particular order, are carimbó, paraense, taperebá, papaia, and amendoim.

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